-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-"An Emotional Jesus..."
- by Caleb Osborne
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Lately In my email newsletters (available for FREE at http://www.ChristThroughMe.com ) I've been talking about how Jesus has experienced everything that we will ever go through here on earth.
Yes, even in our most trying times we can be sure that our Lord has already triumphed in our particular situation. So we can be comfortable talking to him about our troubles.
This is important and a comforting thing to know. For it's comforting to know you can talk to someone who has been through your situation. More important than
comforting feelings is that Jesus showed us way to deal with these emotions.
In last email Jesus got mad at people disgracing house of prayer, temple. So He did right thing and threw them out and was rightly justified in expressing His anger with them.
It's important for me to interject that anger in and of itself is not a sinful emotion, it's a natural one. It will occur, important thing is to be in control of emotion, let it out and recover. Remember that after Jesus stopped selling and misuse of temple grounds He taught them that what they were doing was wrong (Mark 11:17-18).
There is another emotion that I want to focus on in this article though. An emotion so powerful it can hurt worse and cripple more severely than physical pain. That emotion is Sorrow. Sorrow can come in many forms, from many places and can hurt tremendously. So much so that death can seem like a welcomed event..and an acceptable alternative to present circumstances.
Yes, tis true, Sorrow can be worst emotion. Just look at suicide rate in this Country (USA) and you'll see that there are a lot of people that suffer from great sorrow. I'd bet dollars to donuts that you can probably think of someone that you've personally known that has given in to sorrow and taken their life. Such a sad fact, but true (I know it's true for me).
Jesus has experienced horrible sorrow too! And He has showed us way to deal with it! The correct manner to deal with situations that are not turning out way we had hoped, and future seems so bleak.
Jesus taught us to TRUST. To trust in Father's perfect will and trust that He knows what's best for us even when we can't see it , even when it seems like hardest thing to do in world, Jesus taught us to trust and submit to will of Father.
On night that Jesus was to be betrayed He knew what had to happen, horrible suffering that was going to come. I like way NIV version translates what Jesus tells His disciples about his feelings, when He was going off to pray:
